“Stoned at the Nail Salon” by Lorde

"Stoned at the Nail Salon" followed the title track in July 2021 as the next single from Solar Power, Lorde's third album, and it's a hushed folk ballad about getting older and feeling time slip past. Lorde wrote and produced it with Jack Antonoff, who covers acoustic and electric guitar, bass, piano, Mellotron and Farfisa while she adds synthesizer, and Phoebe Bridgers, Clairo and Marlon Williams fill in the backing vocals.

Critics noticed how far it sat from its predecessor and heard in it echoes of Pure Heroine and Melodrama; some found it somber and graceful, others dull and aimless. It still charted in Australia, Ireland, New Zealand and the UK.

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